A Spirit Deal Is Finally Here. Why J.P. Morgan Says Sell the Stock.

Text size Spirit stock is up more than 17% in 2022. Joe Raedle/Getty Images JetBlue reached a deal to purchase Spirit on Thursday, but while that company prepares to buy Spirit for $33.50 a share, J.P...

Here’s the incredibly strong signal for stocks that is coming from the corporate bond market

Is it a false dawn in the stock market or is there something real? The S&P 500 has never lost ground over the following year when advancing volume was at least 85% of volume for two out of three d...

Stock Futures Drop, Implying Reverse in Earnings-Season Rally

Text size After two days of gains, investors are preparing for declines tomorrow. Spencer Platt/Getty Images U.S. stock futures were down Wednesday evening as markets appeared to reverse course follow...

Vertical Aerospace Stock Soars. American Airlines Provides Cash for eVTOL Maker.

Text size There are many new players vying for eVTOL market share, including Vertical Aerospace. Courtesy Vertical Aerospace Vertical Aerospace , the eVTOL maker, secured some expected funding from Am...

JPMorgan, Delta, Morgan Stanley, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Second-quarter earnings season is here. More than a dozen S&P 500 firms report this week, including several major banks. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley go first on Thursday, followed ...

Boeing Stock Gains Despite Airbus Win on China Jet Orders

Text size Competition between Boeing and Airbus has long been fierce, and will remain so. Scott Barbour/Getty Images Airbus started the second half of the year with a nice win, taking potential busine...

JetBlue Raises Offer to Buy Spirit Airlines—Again

JetBlue Airways Corp. isn’t backing down in its fight to buy Spirit Airlines Inc. raising its offer yet again in an effort to outmaneuver rival Frontier Airlines. JetBlue on Monday proposed a $400 mil...

Spirit Airlines Sticks With Frontier Deal After Sweetened Offer

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Boeing Says ‘Drip, Drip’ of Bad News Should Stop. Investors Don’t Believe It.

Text size Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun expects air travel demand to stay. Dreamstime Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun spoke Wednesday at an conference in Qatar arranged by Bloomberg. For investors, there was some g...

JetBlue Sweetens Its Offer for Spirit Airlines

Text size The Spirit board has already approved the Frontier cash and stock offer. Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images JetBlue further sweetened its offer for Spirit Airlines to $33.50 per share on Monda...

The Housing Market Just Hit a Wall. What’s Next for Prices, Brokers, and Builder Stocks.

My summer portfolio strategy is to play the old disco hit “Baby Come Back” while slow dancing with my December brokerage statements. If it works, I have a business idea involving Hall, Oates, and a tw...

Relief at the Pump Could Come Soon. Thank Saudi Arabia.

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Text size Oil prices fell Thursday after the Financial Times reported that Saudi Arabia was ready to increase output as more sanctions on Russia threaten global oil supply...

Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...

Nvidia, Macy’s, Zoom, Costco, Snowflake, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season winds down this week, but with more than a dozen S&P 500 companies left to report. Economists will be watching the latest Federal Reserve meeting...

Boeing Sells 50 737 MAX Jets to IAG at Discount

Text size A Boeing 737 MAX 10 airliner. Ellen Banner-Pool/Getty Images International Consolidated Airlines Group said it has ordered 50 Boeing 737 MAX jets, with options for a further 100 aircraft at ...

Evidence of Nosedive Suggests Boeing Not at Fault in China Eastern Crash

Text size A passenger stands inside a terminal in front of a China Eastern plane at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg Boeing shares rose on news that the tragic crash of a ...

JetBlue Launches Tender Offer for Spirit Airlines at $30 a Share

Text size Spirit Airlines planes are shown at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Spirit Airlines shares surged Monday after JetBlue Airways launch...

JetBlue to Launch Tender Offer for Spirit, Urge Shareholders to Vote Against Frontier Deal

JetBlue Airways Corp. said it plans to launch a hostile takeover attempt for discount carrier Spirit Airlines Inc. after Spirit rejected JetBlue’s $3.6 billion offer in favor of an existing deal with ...

Boeing Looked for Flaws in Its Dreamliner and Couldn’t Stop Finding Them

For years, Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration handled 787 Dreamliner deliveries as though the perfect was the enemy of the good. The FAA allowed the plane maker to deliver the wide-body je...

Here are 30 stocks that Goldman Sachs likes when the economy stutters and markets gyrate

Wall Street is finding some traction for Tuesday, as investors wade through big earnings and ample, gloomy distractions. Fighting has ramped up again in Ukraine as the battle begins for the country’s ...

Delta Tested Elon Musk’s Wi-Fi. That’s Not Why SpaceX Is Worth $100 Billion.

Text size A Delta Air Lines plane Al Drago/Bloomberg Delta Air Lines tested SpaceX Starlink internet service for in-flight Wi-Fi. It’s another milestone for the privately held space company that broug...

Why consider the Dow transports when they point to a slowing economy? Because these 7 stocks are cheap

The Dow Jones Transportation Average has long been considered a good forward indicator of the direction of the U.S. economy. With early signs that an economic slowdown is coming, this might be an obvi...

Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are Hours for Easter Monday 2022.

Text size Dreamstime U.S. investors eager to trade after the holiday weekend will have plenty of news to digest, thanks to corporate earnings. More than 100 companies are slated to report this week—an...

Tesla, AT&T, Netflix, Bank of America, IBM, and Other Stocks to Watch This Week

Text size First-quarter earnings season picks up next week, with 67 S&P 500 companies scheduled to report.  Bank of America will be Monday’s highlight, followed by Netflix , Johnson & Johnson ...

Quest for Pricing Power Drives Stock Gains

Investors are on the hunt for companies with the magic words during any spell of inflation: pricing power. With consumer prices rising at their fastest pace in 40 years and stocks wobbly over the Fede...

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Delta, TSMC, and Other Stocks for Investors to Watch This Week

Text size Uncredited First-quarter earnings season begins this week, kicked off as always by results from several big banks. JPMorgan Chase reports on Wednesday, followed by Wells Fargo , Goldman Sach...

Airline Stocks Have Soared. Here’s What Happens Next.

Text size An American Airlines flight Daniel Slim/AFP/Getty Images Airline stocks have surged as the price of oil has declined. More gains for the airlines will be hard to come by in the short-term.  ...

Alaska Air Is Converting 2 More Boeing Jets Into Freighters. Here’s Why.

Text size Alaska Air sees capacity rising by 1% to 3% in 2022 compared to 2019. Photograph by Jason Redmond/AFP/Getty Images Alaska Air Group unveiled plans Thursday to convert two Boeing 737-800 pass...

Southwest Airlines to Launch New Ticket Type to Boost Revenue

Southwest Airlines Co. LUV 0.35% is launching a new type of ticket with some additional perks as it looks to boost revenue and its appeal to business travelers. The new fare will rank above Southwest’...

Boeing Stock: What Wall Street Is Saying After the China Plane Crash

Text size The Boeing logo Scott Olson/Getty Images A China Eastern Airlines 737-800 tragically crashed Monday, sending shares of Boeing lower. Wall Street is hopeful that Monday’s crash wasn’t a MAX-l...

The Boeing 737 Crash Isn’t Worrying the Market. How We Know.

Text size A China Eastern Airlines Corp. passenger aircraft at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg A plane crash in China has clearly shaken investor confidence in Boeing . S...

Delta Might Buy 737 MAX Jets. That Would Be a Big Win for Boeing.

Text size Delta shares are down about 28% from their 52-week highs. Investors are waiting for air traffic to recover from the pandemic. Yuki Iwamura/AFP via Getty Images Delta Air Lines is considering...